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OPINION: Claremont School District’s Financial Crisis

August 20, 2025August 19, 2025 Kevin P. Tyson

Introduction: A System in Survival Mode Parents in the Claremont School District (SAU6) are living through a crisis that can no longer be brushed aside as a temporary budget hiccup. The district is not merely facing a “tight year.” It is confronting a full-blown financial collapse brought on by years of mismanagement, structural deficits, and … Read more

UNDERWOOD: Claremont’s Near-Death Experience

August 19, 2025 Jody Underwood

In 2012, U.S. Army Master Sergeant Cedric King woke up from a coma in Afghanistan to discover that his legs had been amputated. Today, 8 years later, Cedric says if given the chance, he’d do it all over again. You’ll hear his story of finding tremendous growth in tragedy by relinquishing control and expectations. In … Read more

OPINION: Governor Ayotte, When Will You be Launching a Property Tax Crackdown?

August 16, 2025 Richard Connolly

Governor Ayotte, When will you be launching a property tax crackdown? Granite Staters desperately need help with cutting rates and out-of-control property assessment to restrict local spending. New Hampshire needs this. Yesterday! People are hurting. I see evidence of this everywhere. This was a sleazy way for the City to boost taxes without raising taxes. Note the huge … Read more

Opinion: The Rotten Core of Claremont – The Skimming Effect

August 5, 2025 Francis Gauthier

It is not just incompetence or confusion, but the deliberate *channeling of power, privilege, and money* toward insiders while the rest of us foot the bill and fight over scraps. Whether it’s Claremont’s local swamp or the DNC’s national machine, the pattern is the same. You want to clean it up? You start by pulling … Read more

Opinion: The Rotten Core of Claremont

August 4, 2025 Francis Gauthier

How a City Government Lost Its Mind, Its Grip, and Your Trust Let’s not sugar-coat it, folks: the Claremont city government couldn’t manage a lemonade stand, let alone a tax incentive program like RSA 79-E. What’s happening in this city is beyond negligence—it’s bureaucratic malpractice wrapped in cluelessness and tied with a bow of smug, … Read more

NE Take: Should We Spend $7,300 per Student?

July 2, 2025 The New England Take

On a special Wednesday edition of New England Take, what did the NH Supreme Court decide?!? A. J. breaks down the decision on Contoocook Valley School District v. State of New Hampshire to determine if Superior Court Judge David Ruoff’s ruling should stand, but will anything be enforced? Note: Justice 4 All is on Saturday … Read more

MacDonald: Communists Recruiting in Claremont

June 23, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Yesterday, a reader sent me a short email with a pair of pictures. Someone had posted a flyer on a phone pole on Middle Street in Claremont to recruit Communists. Their thinking was that the city likely had a few takes. I’d guess more than a few. I took a digital trip to the website, … Read more

The Wall That Heals Is Coming to Claremont, NH in June!

April 27, 2025 Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Vietnam Veterans Memorial Replica Wall and Mobile Education Center spreads healing legacy of The Wall and educates about the impact of the Vietnam War Claremont, NH – The Wall That Heals, a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial along with a mobile Education Center, is coming to Claremont, NH … Read more

Short Videos For Mr. Sorg et al?

March 28, 2025 Julie Smith

Plato said, “If you don’t take interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” Let me tell you, my friends, how much that resonates with me as a former constituent of Mr & Mrs Newman and Alderman Dowd, to name a few. The goal of … Read more

Complaint Filed Against Kearsarge School District for Ignoring State Law

October 5, 2024October 5, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

Dear Ms. Fenton, After repeated complaints by residents and parents around New Hampshire, I am requesting an investigation into the illegal actions by the Kearsarge school district, and any other district that has participated in their illegal activity. HB1205 was signed into law in July by Governor Sununu, and requires schools to designate athletics by … Read more

Trump Promises to Block Funding to any School that Imposes Mask or Vaccine Mandates

November 17, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Last weekend, I took a trip to Claremont, New Hampshire, for the Trump Rally. He was one of three candidates I’d not yet heard this cycle. The others were Haley and Scott. Scott dropped out, so I won’t see him, but I caught up with Trump: long drive, sunny day (if only about 39 deg.), and some interesting observations.

The ConVal Education Funding Lawsuit … Attorney General Johnny-Woke Tells The Court: The State Is Only A Little Bit Pregnant

May 1, 2023 Ed Mosca

According to Attorney General Johnny-Woke, courts can AND SHOULD determine whether “the State” is “fully funding” an “adequate education,” as long as they don’t try to determine how much it costs to “fully fund” an “adequate education.” I kid you not … from New Hampshire Business Review: Attorney General Formella’s team is not seeking to … Read more

Endless Lawsuits to Funnel Limitless Amounts of Money to Failing Government Schools

May 1, 2021

With the realization that many of our state and national elections have been determined by pre-programmed ballot counting machine voter fraud, people who now want to get involved need a basic set of documents for research.

The (Arguably) Most Important Question in the Gubernatorial Race That Everyone is Ignoring

October 17, 2020 Ed Mosca

Do you remember the ConVal education funding lawsuit? From my post back in June of last year: So last week, a single Superior Court Judge decided he was the State’s Education-Czar and implicitly ordered -while, of course, claiming he was doing no such thing- the State to -at a minimum- triple spending on public education … Read more

Why some New Hampshire Towns are Always “Property Poor”.

October 16, 2019October 15, 2019 Skip

Decisions have consequences – not just at the personal or corporate level but governmental as well. While some towns have tried to do all the right things, some have failed – some many times over.

Was the Claremont Lynching Story a Fake Hate Crime?

August 10, 2019August 7, 2019 Steve MacDonald

It was advertised as an attempted lynching. Stories accompanied by pictures of a bi-racial boy’s neck with rope burns and labeled as a hate crime. But the New Hampshire State Supreme Court is now hinting that it was a false narrative.

Say Hello to the Claremont Income Tax … and Thank You to our Wonderful Attorney General

June 16, 2019 Ed Mosca

So last week, a single Superior Court Judge decided he was the State’s Education-Czar and implicitly ordered -while, of course, claiming he was doing no such thing- the State to -at a minimum- triple spending on public education … which would require a massive expansion in spending by State government (at least an additional $1.6 … Read more

If Public Schools Were Subject to Consumer Protection Laws, They’d All be Under Investigation

April 8, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Courts and Education funding have a sketchy history in New Hampshire. Just say the word ‘Claremont,’ and the left’s eyes glow with adoration. You might even see a tear of joy. But not enough joy. So, the Left is at it again. Both in the legislature and the courts.

The Claremont Way

April 5, 2019 Jim Kofalt

In the mid-1990’s, the town of Claremont pleaded poverty, insisting that the rest of the state should pony up more money to fund its local schools. The result was the imposition of a wealth-redistribution scheme on the rest of our state. A decade later, Claremont wasn’t looking so poverty-stricken after all.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Attracts a Crowd of Six People in New Hampshire

May 4, 2019March 18, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Bill de Blasio was in New Hampshire Sunday for a panel discussion on mental health. Twenty people showed up. Fourteen of the twenty were on the panel. That means only six people showed up — one for each reporter who appeared to document the dismal showing.